British Library Board

Contract awards

• 002894 PLR library loans data

  Location: London

  Awarded contractContract ends 2 Nov, 202936 monthsValue £45.00kSource Find a Tender

  Provision of a managed Public Lending Right (PLR) library borrowing data service by Civica UK Ltd, including collection and submission of borrowing data from approximately 130 participating library authorities, administration of reimbursement arrangements on their behalf, ongoing service management and support, data co

  Awarded to CIVICA UK LIMITED

• Footfall Counters for Corporate Reporting

  Location: London

  Awarded contractContract ends 3 Nov, 202936 monthsValue £32.73kSource Find a Tender

  1.1 The British Library is seeking suppliers for the provision of a visitor counting system that enables accurate, reliable and privacy-compliant monitoring, counting and reporting of visitor numbers across its sites.

  Awarded to PFM INTELLIGENCE UK LIMITED

• Living Knowledge Network exhibition

  Location: London

  Awarded contractContract ends 11 Sept, 202710 monthsValue £19.99kSource Find a Tender

  Living Knowledge Network exhibition-evaluation

  Awarded to CULTURE PEOPLE CIC

• 002884 INTERIM SENIOR HR SUPPORT SERVICES

  Location: London

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £112.00kSource Find a Tender

  To provide senior HR leadership and specialist consultancy support across the British Library's HR transformation programme, including HR service optimisation, people policy modernisation, employee wellbeing and support services, reward and contractual change, organisational change, and HR systems and data

  Awarded to OSBORNE THOMAS LIMITED

• 002882 HISTORIC CASE WORK REVIEW

  Location: London

  Awarded contractPublished 29 Oct, 2026Value £17.23kSource Find a Tender

  Independently review approximately 30 historical investigation cases, assess risks and outstanding issues, and recommend whether each case should be progressed, resolved or closed, with clear priorities.

  Awarded to SENATUS CONSULTING LTD

• 002653 British Library Future Web Programme

  Location: London

  Awarded contractContract ends 2 Oct, 202935 monthsValue £5.09mSource Find a Tender

  The British Library has appointed a supplier to support delivery of its Future Web Programme, working alongside internal staff as a blended digital product team. Services include digital product development, software engineering, UX and design, user research and testing, content design, accessibility, quality assurance

  Awarded to MANIFESTO DIGITAL LIMITED

• Recruitment Services - Interim H&S Consultant

  Location: London

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Jan, 20273 monthsValue £20.40kSource Find a Tender

  Delivery of the Services. Osborne Thomas Ltd shall provide a Consultant to deliver interim Health & Safety consultancy services to the British Library.

  Awarded to OSBORNE THOMAS LIMITED

• 002883 PENSION REVIEW AND REPLACEMENT ADVICE

  Location: London

  Awarded contractContract ends 30 Jun, 20278 monthsValue £16.70kSource Find a Tender

  Provision of pensions consultancy services to support the British Library in establishing a new Defined Contribution (DC) pension arrangement.

  Awarded to BARNETT WADDINGHAM LLP

• 002745 British Library Valuation Services

  Location: London

  Awarded contractContract ends 24 Jan, 203151 monthsValue £123.17kSource Find a Tender

  The British Library is seeking a supplier for Valuation Services.

  Awarded to SAVILLS (UK) LIMITED

• 002807 BRITISH LIBRARY WEB AND WEB CONTENT STRATEGY

  Location: London

  Awarded contractContract ends 29 Jul, 20279 monthsValue £97.04kSource Find a Tender

  The British Library requires support in relation to the development of a high-level web strategy for the British Library estate and a detailed web content strategy for the bl.uk website.

  Awarded to NUMIKO LIMITED

• 002877 Higher Education and Science Event Management 2026-27

  Location: London

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £20.00kSource Find a Tender

  Services to support a range of events related to the British Library activities in higher education and science. To include event management for the British Library science and higher education programmes.

  Awarded to Robin S Events

• 002891 RECRUITMENT SERVICES

  Location: London

  Awarded contractContract ends 18 Dec, 202643 daysValue £46.80kSource Find a Tender

  Provision of a fully managed executive recruitment service for six British Library roles: 4 x HR Business Partners, 1 x Head of People Operations, and 1 x Head of Health & Safety. The service includes recruitment campaign design, executive search, market mapping, candidate sourcing, advertising, candidate assessment

  Awarded to OSBORNE THOMAS LIMITED

• 002904 Trakka Cabinets

  Location: London

  Awarded contractPublished 5 Oct, 2026Value £14.57kSource Find a Tender

  Traka key management system integrated with the Genetec security system. To move an existing Traka cabinet from the BLCC and adding an additional Traka cabinet to expand the existing system.

  Awarded to ASSA ABLOY GLOBAL SOLUTIONS UK LIMITED

• Print, bind and delivery

  Location: London

  Awarded contractPublished 10 Sept, 2026Value £11.65kSource Find a Tender

  Print, bind and delivery of 3,500 copies of BL publication Tara of the Kings (+/-5% run-on),

  Awarded to PBtisk a.s.

• 002810 Culture Strategy development consultancy

  Location: London

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £59.97kSource Find a Tender

  A consultant to support the British Library to develop a new vision for our culture programme at our enhanced St Pancras site that maximises the potential of our programme's shift in scale to articulate an ambitious and high-profile public offer.

  Awarded to RALPH APPELBAUM ASSOCIATES, INC.

• 002876 The Immortal Sisterhood

  Location: London

  Awarded contractPublished 9 Sept, 2026Value £16.00kSource Find a Tender

  The Immortal Sisterhood Ensemble. Two performances of words and live music production called The Immortal Sisterhood Live. The show is based around the histories of 12 remarkable women across centuries and continents, including women who are featured in the British Library collections.

  Awarded to TISL Ltd

• 002863 AV HARDWARE TENDER FOR NORMANS EXHIBITION

  Location: London

  Awarded contractContract ends 10 Mar, 202816 monthsValue £27.13kSource Find a Tender

  Audiovisual installation services for the British Library Normans exhibitions.

  Awarded to ADi Audiovisual

• International Dunhuang Programme (IDP) -Klnt

  Location: London

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Aug, 202934 monthsValue £35.24kSource Find a Tender

  The IDP website currently links the collections of over 35 institutions worldwide. Technical continuity for the next few years of the Programme is essential to include the public and private side infrastructure for the CIIM, as well as image storage and application support to expand to include the public and private s

  Awarded to KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION LTD

• 002821 External Board Effectiveness review

  Location: London

  Awarded contractPublished 20 Aug, 2026Value £15.40kSource Find a Tender

  Independent Board Effectiveness Review for The British Library

  Awarded to MENZIES LLP

• 002814 Software Licence and Support renewal for OpenText

  Location: London

  Awarded contractContract ends 1 Jun, 20277 monthsValue £23.94kSource Find a Tender

  Software Licence and Support renewal for OpenText-licensing

  Awarded to OPEN TEXT UK LIMITED